On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:19:33 -0500 (CDT), Aleksander Demko wrote
I, like billions of other developers, have a medium sized project that for various reasons, invented its own thread, io, etc libraries. I'm thinkin of switching over to boost stuff for all my utility needs, but I'm wondering if boost has/possibly will have/is open to the possibility of adding/ or will never have the following facilities:
serialization/object persistance (via iostreams)
In the 1.32 release.
network socket iostreams
There has been work on this, but it seems stalled... http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostSocket
UUID stuff (sometimes know as GUIDs)
No one is working on this, but it would be nice to have.
interface to dlls/.so loading
No one is working on this, also would be useful.
url parsing (something like the filesystem lib) No one is working on this, also would be useful.
and, just out of curiosity: xml/html parsing
There have been various discussions of this, but I'm not aware of a coherent effort. All the libraries you mention would be valuable in boost in my view -- contributions appreciated. See http://www.boost.org/more/submission_process.htm if you haven't already. Jeff